Re: VTL - Tape Cloning to a remote site

‎2009-11-0305:47 AM

The article talks about exporting to physical tapes using local tape libraries.....how we do the same thing if the library is on a remote site. I believe we can use FCIP gateways because I dont think VTL itself can do any tape creations over ethernet.

Re: VTL - Tape Cloning to a remote site

‎2009-11-0306:03 AM

Hi there

The native protocol for vtape (or even VTL to tape) replication is FC. I would recommend you work with your local NetApp SE (technical resource) if you wanted to do this over some other IP-based mechanism....I would also recommend you look carefully at the data volumes, available line bandwidth and replication window as well !